40 years ago, a refusenik made art of the Soviet Jewish tragedy. At 82, he is seeing its first English translation. David Shrayer-Petrov’s “Doctor Levitin” was the first published work of literature on the refusenik experience.
Maria Slepak, former Soviet refusenik, dies She shared her husband Vladimir's exile in Siberia before they were permitted to leave the Soviet Union for Israel — 17 years after they first applied for an exit visa.
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein, a former Soviet refusenik, addresses Russian parliament Edelstein, imprisoned on trumped-up drug charges because he was teaching Hebrew, spent three years doing hard labor in Siberian camps.
